At 10:34 AM -0400 6/28/04, Norman Walsh wrote:
>It follows that there are significant tradeoffs to be considered when
>deciding on a namespace change policy. If your existing vocabulary has
>no extensibility points (if it does not allow elements or attributes
>>From foreign namespaces or have a mechanism for dealing with
>unrecognized names from the same namespace), it may be absolutely
>necessary to change the namespace name.
This is an issue for processing software, not for the XML vocabulary
itself. No XML vocabulary needs a mechanism for dealing with
unrecognized names. The problem would only be in software that reads
the vocabulary.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@metalab.unc.edu
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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